Band Quotes
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I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.
Martin Gore Depeche Mode
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Still searching for those golden moments. They’re out there and I will find them. Plus, I have a great band and we all get along very well. It makes it fun to be on stage. Besides, I don’t know how to do anything else.
Southside Johnny
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For five guys from Sheffield who didn't know shit about anything, being in a band was like winning the lottery. Suddenly you didn't have to beg for a date anymore - they'd come up to you.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard
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The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.
James Young Styx
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Being in a band is all-consuming, and I like to have a life.
Paul Rodgers Bad Company
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God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.
C. S. Lewis
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When do you suppose the electric guitar was invented? If you thought the 1950s, you'd be wrong. If you can muster a recollection of hearing electric guitar in Lionel Hampton's big band in the 1940s and date it to that decade, you'd still be off - by more than 30 years.
Daniel Levitin
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The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album to album and still be just as good or better. I didn't feel that we were able to do that. The Beatles were in a class by themselves.
John William Cummings Ramones
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
Travis Barker Blink-182
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When I went to shows with my friends, it was all about the experience with my friends. If I met the band, it was cool. But it was more about talking about the memories of the show with my friends.
Kellin Quinn
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I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.
Patsy Cline
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For bighorns, topography is memory, enhanced by acute vision. They can anticipate the land's every contour--when to leap, where to climb, when to turn, which footholds will support their muscular bodies. To survive, this is what the band would have to do: make this perfect match of flesh to earth.
Ellen Meloy
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Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.
Tina Weymouth
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I like the power and versatility of a big band and how an orchestra can vary the dynamics from very loud to very quiet, and SNJO covers those bases.
Kurt Elling
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There's no such thing as a lead singer in our band.
Steve Lukather Toto
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We really take our music seriously and we take the band very seriously. But we have a lot of personality. So if we're going to write a song about kissing a girl, we're gonna write it. And people think we're a funny band, but we're just realistic, we put our personality into our lyrics.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182
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If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!
Joe Perry Aerosmith
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Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.
Zachary Cole Smith
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The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.
Harry Dean Stanton
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I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.
Joe Perry Aerosmith
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Nat doing 'Fault' was the greatest thing for our band, and the only reason that our song got in it because Nat was screaming it in the movie. Now we can say that we have a song in 'Fault in Our Stars,' and we have a thousand fans who went to listen to our music because we performed at an event for 'Fault in Our Stars.'
Alex Wolff
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Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.
Colin Meloy